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Examines the most current social welfare issues in historical perspective.

Social Welfare: A History of the American Response to Needenables students to place current issues of social concern in their historical contexts. It examines the comprehensive history of social welfare from the 18th century to the present, while exploring the ideas—as well as the economic and political forces—that have shaped policy development. Using numerous original documentsto provide a clearer picture of historical periods, the authors show how social conditions, ideas about dependency and poverty, and institutions have shaped social policy and the efforts of voluntary organizations and individuals who work with at-risk populations.

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Mark Stern is professor of social welfare and history and co-director of the Urban Studies program at the University of Pennsylvania. He has authored or co-authored five books, including One Nation Divisible: What America Was and What It Is Becoming (co-authored with Michael B. Katz).

Before her death, June Axinn was professor emeritus of social welfare at the University of Pennsylvania.

BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction: How to Think About Social Welfare’s Past (and Present)

2. The Colonial Period: 1647—1776

3. The Pre—Civil War Period: 1777—1860

4. The Civil War and After: 1860—1900

5. Progress and Reform: 1900—1930

6. The Depression and the New Deal: 1930—1940

7. War and Prosperity: 1940—1968

8. Conservative Resurgence and Social Change: 1968—1992

9. Social Welfare and the Information Society: 1992—2016

DETAILED TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction: How to Think About Social Welfare’s Past (and Present)

DOCUMENT: Introduction

An Act for the Relief of the Poor, 43 Elizabeth, 1601

2. The Colonial Period: 1647—1776

The Poor Laws in the Colonies

Conquest, Expansion, and Population Growth: Native Americans, Immigration, and Slavery

Social Change and the Challenge to the Poor Laws

Veterans: A Special Class

DOCUMENTS: The Colonial Period

An Act of Supplement to the Acts Referring to the Poor, Massachusetts Bay, 1692

The Binding of Moses Love, 1747

3. The Pre—Civil War Period: 1777—1860

Social and Economic Conditions

Population Growth and Migration

Slavery and Free Labor

Reform and Social Change

Labor Unrest

Religious Reform and Jacksonian Democracy

The Expansion of Public Education

The Expansion of Suffrage

Moral Reform

Social Welfare Programs and Services

Institutionalization

Child Saving

Retreat from the Almshouse

DOCUMENTS: The Pre—Civil War Period

The First Annual Report of the Managers of the Society for the Prevention of Pauperism in the City of New York, 1818